Hacker News: curt15

New comment by curt15 in "Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases"

curt15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:38:22 +0000

How does one "interpret" public knowledge to time bets so accurately right before Trump's announcements?

New comment by curt15 in "Keep Android Open"

curt15 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:34:02 +0000

Will the new OSs be able overcome Apple and Google lobbies to restrict banking apps to "secure" (i.e. under their control) devices?

New comment by curt15 in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

curt15 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:00:02 +0000

It's interesting how "real Unix" is still thrown around as a badge of prestige when Linux basically runs the world now.

New comment by curt15 in "Claude mixes up who said what"

curt15 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:20:33 +0000

LLMs are deterministic in the sense that a fixed linear regression model is deterministic. Like linear regression, however, they do however encode a statistical model of whatever they're trying to describe -- natural language for LLMs.

New comment by curt15 in "US court declines to block Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting for now"

curt15 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:39:49 +0000

What prevents the DoD from saying "no" without the designation?

New comment by curt15 in "US court declines to block Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting for now"

curt15 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:42:50 +0000

"Under these circumstances, requiring the Department to prolong its use of Anthropic’s AI technology, whether directly or through contractors, strikes us as a substantial judicial imposition on military operations." (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.42...)

Does not designating Anthropic a "supply chain risk" actually require the DoD to use Anthropic's services?

New comment by curt15 in "S3 Files"

curt15 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:40:55 +0000

How does this compare with ZFS's object storage backend? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620673

New comment by curt15 in "Iran threatens OpenAI's Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi"

curt15 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:11:54 +0000

History doesn't start in 1979. One can draw a direct line to those events from 1953.

New comment by curt15 in "Iran threatens OpenAI's Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi"

curt15 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:09:38 +0000

How many Russian deaths have been caused by US proxies in Ukraine so far? Do those justify an attack on the US by Russia?

New comment by curt15 in "Iran threatens OpenAI's Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi"

curt15 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:01:56 +0000

>They haven't been following international law since 1979.

History doesn't start in 1979. Why not go back to 1953? Overthrowing another country's elected government is no more conscionable under international law.

New comment by curt15 in "Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool"

curt15 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:15:10 +0000

Where are all of the ZFS corruption stories? Or are there simply fewer of those?

New comment by curt15 in "Meta, Google under attack as court cases bypass 30-year-old legal shield"

curt15 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:37:11 +0000

Doesn't Truth Social also benefit from the protection of Section 230?

New comment by curt15 in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

curt15 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:54:48 +0000

>The whole linux stack got bigger though - just look at what you need now to compile stuff, cmake, meson/ninja, mesa, llvm and so forth

Those are all development tools. Has the runtime overhead grown proportionally, and what accounts for the extra weight?

New comment by curt15 in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

curt15 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:50:44 +0000

Chromebooks still start out at 4GB (example: https://www.acer.com/us-en/chromebooks/acer-chromebook-315-c...), and it's not like Google Chrome is lighter on RAM than Ubuntu's default browser.

New comment by curt15 in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

curt15 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:19:53 +0000

Given that efficiency one of Linux's most touted advantages, what in the world is Ubuntu's PR department thinking? Ubuntu isn't providing any more functionality than when its memory requirement was 4GB. What is hogging all that extra ram?

New comment by curt15 in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

curt15 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:58:36 +0000

I think the OP is asking why Apple is enclosing macs in a walled garden when that concept is generally associated with iPhones, not general-purpose computers.

New comment by curt15 in "Adobe wrote to my hosts file. I've never had an app do this before"

curt15 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:09:20 +0000

How is Adobe modifying a system file at all? Does Adobe run a background process with root privileges?

New comment by curt15 in "U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile"

curt15 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:14:46 +0000

> But when all of the Epstein thing happened, I genuinely thought that US media which moved the headlines faster than I can think about the issues for, would actually slow down given the severity and we as a society could think about it.

Not to worry since the public face of the Epstein files coverup is back in the news.

New comment by curt15 in "Android Developer Verification"

curt15 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:51:15 +0000

Suppose for argument this statistic were true. It still does not fully capture people's risk.

P(malware) = P(nalware | Google Play) * P(Google Play) + P(malware | non-Google Play) * P(non-Google Play)

It's the combination of both factors that counts. Even if Google Play has a lower malware rate, a user is still far more likely to try to install apps through Google Play given the sheer size of its catalog and its prominent, default placement on people's devices.

New comment by curt15 in "Android Developer Verification"

curt15 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:41:48 +0000

Are there any anti-trust angles to this?